Example sentences of "when i be at " in BNC.

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1 My wife and I both dive when I am at home and we have a number of friends who run dive charter operations in the Keys .
2 ‘ I am a different person when I am at work on the Geest or on the heath or in the dunes .
3 Let it have your sole attention when I am abroad , but when I am at home , so jealous am I of your affections , I shall permit no rival in them even a son and heir .
4 We had next to none when I was at drama school and young actors need to know more about what will be expected of them on film sets and television studios .
5 Indeed when I was at the police college in 1987 and Jones was on the Senior Command Course prior to taking up a position as assistant chief constable , I took a straw poll among my immediate colleagues to see what influence such books achieve .
6 When I was at university ( actually a rather seedy teacher training college in south-east London ) nobody could afford to run a car .
7 When I was at the Transport Department , my aim was a good rail service for the public and as efficient a service as possible .
8 I can say only that when I was at Bletchley the belief among my associates was that information had been received and that Ultra did not fail ; the intelligence it provided could not be fully acted upon for fear of betraying Ultra itself .
9 My thirst for real travel was to have its very modest beginnings on the railways of the Midlands when I was at B.P. My journeying consisted of little trips to neighbouring towns within a radius of fifty miles north , south , east and west of Bletchley .
10 ‘ The idea first came to me when I was at college and Paul Watson , a BBC producer , came to do a series of lectures .
11 When I was at school in the seventies , one afternoon every week throughout the winter term , I put on a pair of ill-fitting plimsolls and plodded miserably , and for no apparent reason , around the wet pavements of a Sussex market town .
12 When I was at school , we were given spellings to learn every day and were allowed to get two out of ten wrong .
13 When I was at college I used to bury my nose in a book rather than join one of the societies and almost rebuffed overtures , as I was so scared of not knowing what to talk about .
14 I have always been particularly grateful to Fred for this generous and helpful boost when I was at the crossroads .
15 When I was at college , I used to think , ‘ This must be the best time of life . ’
16 Maybe when I was at school .
17 When I was at school I had no idea that one day I 'd be captain of Yorkshire .
18 When I was at Island we had open days consisting of a succession of 40 minute meetings .
19 When I was at the GLC , Ken Livingstone was in charge and I thought it was the beginning of Utopia , so many wonderful things were happening at last .
20 ‘ Although I had not had a sexual experience when I was at high school , I thought I should be ready , if and when it came , and so I thought I should stock up .
21 When I was at school I was so good that I was n't allowed to answer the questions , but had to give the other girls a chance . ’
22 When I was at school I hated it , but when I left I wished I were back there .
23 When I was at Shrewsbury School , the housemaster made it his duty to chose the cooks , maids and bottle-washers ; his criteria being age combined with an aggressive plainness .
24 When I was at university , we fulfilled expectations in every way by occupying the refectory to get the Americans out of Vietnam .
25 Once when I was at school he told me that I should spend the entire summer working on improving my passing off my left hand and my kicking off my left foot .
26 He said : ‘ I do n't know how fans looked at me when I was at Liverpool .
27 ‘ There is a brilliant atmosphere at the club now and when I was at Forest we did n't have this sort of camaraderie . ’
28 When I was at university , doing my professional training or in the early years of practice , I always worked with women women solicitors , women bankers and so on .
29 When I was at school and university in the 1960s , when the myth of progress was still very much alive , my social and political lessons tended to recite the advances of the century as a long list of linear progress : the gradual emergence from primitivism to modern civilisation .
30 When I was at school , we used to take it in turns to visit a former pupil , a woman in her twenties , who lay in hospital incurably handicapped .
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